Saturday 29 June 2019
The Impossible Dream
How have we come to build a whole culture around a futile, self-defeating enterprise: the pursuit of happiness?
Thursday 27 June 2019
The Last of Its Kind
The biologist David Sischo has a tragic assignment: keeping vigil over a species’ sole survivor, then marking its extinction in real time.
Wednesday 26 June 2019
Tuesday 25 June 2019
Against Disenchantment
The move away from myth and toward reason is an ancient human impulse. But must enchantment be the enemy of enlightenment?
How a 6-Year-Old Survived Being Lost in the Woods
As a child, Cody Sheehy made headlines when he vanished into the freezing wilderness of Northeast Oregon, making it out safely after 18 hours of determined slogging.
Monday 24 June 2019
The Spirit of History
Hegel’s search for the universal patterns of history revealed a paradox: freedom is coming into being, but is never guaranteed.
The Ironic Feudalist
Kure Tomofusa’s hatred of democracy, human rights and liberalism has found an echo in the West. But has he been joking all along?
Morsel
Over 100 years ago, the US government commissioned 7,500 watercolor paintings of every kind of fruit in the country.
Sunday 23 June 2019
Godmother of Intelligences
Mary Shelley foresaw that artificial intelligence would be made monstrous, not by human hubris but by human cruelty.
The Remains Of Stalin’s Dead Road
In Russia’s arctic wilderness, the remnants of one of the Soviet Union’s most tragic gulag projects now lies largely forgotten.
Quote from ‘Westwood Lake Chronicles’
“We can look forward to another two years of metal-on-metal ‘improvements’. As long as we reward the misguided ethos that consumers are more important than citizens, our contempt for responsible stewardship will go on forever. For how could we ever conceive of an alternative to creating yet another place not worth caring about?”
Lawrence Winkler, Westwood Lake Chronicles
Lawrence Winkler, Westwood Lake Chronicles
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